Bitcoin traded around $63,170, per CoinDesk data, after touching $64,400 in the early hours and slipping back. Ether held near $1,770, up 11.6% on the week, while XRP and solana kept most of their weekly gains at $1.13 and $80.
Chinese companies are ditching Nvidia Corp.’s advanced accelerators in favor of domestic silicon, underscoring how tensions with the US are reshaping the AI infrastructure buildout and propelling Beijing’s ambitions to substitute American…
Hong Kong’s high-quality economic development will be guided by its first five-year blueprint and the coming policy address, with artificial intelligence (AI) as the “central plank”, the city’s leader has said. Speaking at the South China…
LeRobot v0.6.0 introduces world model policies (VLA-JEPA, FastWAM, LingBot-VA) that learn to imagine the future, a wave of new VLAs (GR00T N1.7, MolmoAct2, EO-1, EVO1, Multitask DiT), and a new reward models API (Robometer, TOPReward).
This work was largely done during Neel Nanda's MATS 10.0 Exploration Phase.
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Kraken’s new API Partner Program is aimed at a less visible but important part of crypto markets: the platforms, brokers, and algorithmic trading desks that decide where order flow gets routed.
Singapore is the world’s most expensive city for luxury spending for a fourth consecutive year, as prices on items such as watches and jewellery surge around the globe.
Leveraged traders hold their most negative yen positions since 2007, with the currency sliding to levels not seen since 1986.
A Chinese smart-glasses maker founded by an Apple veteran has become a unicorn after a funding round with investors including Meituan and Tencent.
The Korean chipmaker posted an 1,810% profit surge, and investors responded by heading for the exits.
Europe's largest lender is pulling back from private credit funds that don't deliver sufficient returns, joining a broader banking retreat from the $1.8 trillion market.
Billionaire Richard White has stepped down as chair of WiseTech Global Ltd., just weeks after denying he was involved in human trafficking amid reports he was being investigated by police over claims he used a woman’s immigration status…
The CLARITY Act gained fresh momentum after the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives endorsed the bill and Major County Sheriffs of America shifted to neutral, marking two notable law enforcement developments for digital asset legislation.
Hong Kong’s Primary Six students received their secondary school results on Tuesday after years of hard work, with many elated and some already deciding what subject to major in at university or considering pathways to studying overseas.
Blockchains will face increasing pressure to compromise on decentralization to meet user demand for speed and scalability, Injective CEO Eric Chen said.
Japan is facing mounting calls to decide whether its long-frozen development aid to Myanmar should stay that way, as rights advocates warn that any resumption could ease pressure on a regime accused of widespread abuses.
Iran's military fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, two U.S. officials tell Axios.
Bitcoin traded around $63,170, per CoinDesk data, after touching $64,400 in the early hours and slipping back. Ether held near $1,770, up 11.6% on the week, while XRP and solana kept most of their weekly gains at $1.13 and $80.
XRP is still trying to turn last week’s rebound into a cleaner breakout, but the move is struggling for follow-through. Buyers stepped in after a sharp drop toward $1.11 and drove the token back toward resistance, yet XRP failed to hold above the levels needed to confirm momentum.
Bollinger Bands creator John Bollinger says the charts suggest Bitcoin could take off from here.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $266M total as institutional appetite makes a quiet but notable comeback.
The report follows comments from White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt in May, who said the administration was examining the legal implications of creating a Bitcoin reserve.
Governments risk repeating mistakes made during the dawn of the nuclear age if they wait to create laws governing artificial intelligence, warned UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.
The trigger is China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services, jointly issued April 10 by five government departments—the Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of…
TeraWulf, a bitcoin miner that has remade itself into an AI landlord, signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic to host the AI company at a Kentucky data center, sending its shares up as much as 19% on Monday before they settled to a gain of about 4%.
"Artificial intelligence is advancing at runaway speed,” Guterres said in the opening of his keynote. The room included all 193 UN member states, convened in Geneva at the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance, a multilateral attempt to govern a technology that has already outrun everyone trying to do it.
These efforts demonstrate how AI turns domestic infrastructure, local data and homegrown talent into solutions that can be used for social good. Learn more by joining NVIDIA at the AI for Good Summit, running July 7-10 in Geneva, Switzerland, and.
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Where the scan identified a vulnerability, Claude Code could often generate a fix, test it, and build it. In cases where a system lacked the automated tests needed to confirm that a patch was safe, Claude wrote the tests first.
Big Digital Energy, Inc. has acquired land for a planned data center campus outside the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas.
Although he doesn’t know how long the boom will last, chip workers like Baek are riding high. “These days, MIT Technology Review say MIT Technology Review want to work hard and bury MIT Technology Review’s bones here [at SK Hynix],” he says.
According to Sharma’s memo, Xbox is also flattening management hard, cutting the current 14 management layers to no more than five, but ideally three. Xbox’s restructuring plan centers around narrowing focus by dropping sprawling creative bets that don’t produce platform-scale returns, and instead homing in on core…
It says there are 24 “hyperscale” datacentre projects in various stages of planning in Scotland. “It is extreme overdevelopment.
TechCrunch recently wrote about why that rationale is something companies may want to rethink, not least because for many of these companies, the teams they’re now cutting ballooned during the pandemic hiring surge, raising questions about what’s going on right now.
Securitize (SECZ) plans to use its newly-strengthened balance sheet to pursue acquisitions to expand its tokenization business following its public listing, CEO Carlos Domingo told CoinDesk in an interview.
Conversations have also pivoted to putting the reserve inside the Commerce Department. In an emailed statement to The Block, a White House spokesperson said the administration is continuing to work on its plans for the reserve.
Tad Devine was in a car driving from Rhode Island to Washington when he told 125 reporters that Hillary Clinton was going to lose the general election.
WASHINGTON — Arvind Raman was sworn in on June 30, 2026, as the fifth under secretary of commerce for standards and technology and the 18th director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. Raman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 18, 2026.
There have been 1,561 recorded cases of Ebola, including 506 deaths, since the disease’s outbreak was declared on May 15, according to DRC’s Ministry of Health. The International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid organization, previously said severe cuts to global aid weakened frontline healthcare and preparedness…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Graham Platner to "immediately" end his campaign, throwing the Maine Senate race into chaos four months before Election Day.
Ethereum's ambitious plan to reinvent itself over the next several years is getting an enthusiastic reception from many of the network's researchers, though several say the biggest challenge won't be deciding what to build, but how quickly it can happen.
M1X Global, the crypto startup that worked with the Republic of the Marshall Islands to help it issue the tokenized sovereign debt instrument USDM1, has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round led by Paradigm.
Strategy's (MSTR) recent bitcoin trades suggest the company is attempting to find its footing amid bitcoin's BTC $ 63,032.10 bear-market slide, which raises questions about its capital markets strategy.
Circle’s USDC stablecoin widened its lead over competitor Tether’s USDT by transaction volume during the first half of 2026, according to fresh data from Visa’s onchain dashboard.
Ether (ETH) led crypto majors into Monday as bitcoin held above $63,000, steadying after a week that pulled it off its lows and back to its highest in more than a month.
Moonbeam didn’t provide a timeline for when it would launch the AI agent platform but told GLMR holders to bridge their tokens from the Polkadot parachain to Base before July 31.
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix isn’t one of the Magnificent 7 stocks but is in a class of its own after pulling off a stunning rally on the back of the AI boom, and it’s about to land on U.S. markets.
Artificial intelligence poses a “Hiroshima”-style risk to humanity if governments do not agree to curb how it is developed, the foreign secretary has warned.
A wide-ranging product recap showed how Coinbase has advanced its “every asset, every market, one platform” strategy across trading, payments, artificial intelligence, stablecoins, and on-chain infrastructure.
It should make Americans of every political stripe want to hurl their devices against a wall.
Mac users searching for the open-source clipboard manager Maccy are being targeted by a fake version of the app that installs a new Rust-based infostealer dubbed PamStealer, according to cybersecurity firm Jamf Threat Labs.
SpaceX has confirmed in a semi-annual report submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month that it disposed of 260 Starlink satellites between December 2025 and May 2026, intentionally vaporizing them via re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
To create the first global map of this hidden system, the authors of the new study compiled data from 322 previous studies, along with 16,000 soil samples collected from a wide range of terrestrial ecosystems.
Vintage products are those Apple has stopped distributing for sale more than 5 years ago, but less than 7 years ago. IPhones typically receive iOS updates for 5-7 years after launch, so if your iPhone is approaching the 5-year mark since its release (not when you bought it), it's worth checking whether it's still…
With multiple streaming services to choose from and the entire history of cinema and television to dig into, you'd be forgiven for not being up-to-date with the latest films and shows.
Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. “The continents started appearing around about four billion years ago—that’s the oldest continental rock we know about,” said Tim Johnson, a geologist at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
Sylvie Andrews and her partner didn’t lose the new house they’d helped build when the Eaton Fire ripped through Altadena, California, in January 2025. They lost an entire decade’s worth of sacrifices they’d made to put down roots in their hometown, and the community they’d created.
Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience.
The S&P 500 notched its best quarter since 2020 and is up about 9% so far this year, but it’s mostly downhill from here, according to Bank of America.
Americans are not supposed to be on Polymarket, but they were its biggest national political crowd over the last year anyway.
Catch up quick: Trump took the stage after storms forced throngs of event-goers to evacuate, seek temporary shelter, and then be re-screened through security checkpoints when gates reopened. Go deeper: Trump declares D.C.'s July 4 celebration a "TRUMP RALLY"
Physicist Ronald Koopman appeared at a Southern California Air District meeting in 2018 to talk about what seemed like an arcane scientific topic: hydrofluoric acid dispersion and water mitigation testing.
A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. a reprieve from a law that caused all of its lobbyists to drop it as a client while she considers the constitutionality of the measure, in a case set to test the US’s ability to curtail Chinese companies’ activities.
The Democratic Party is divided.
The company’s annual June showcase was packed with crowd-pleasers: Halo, Gears of War, Fable, a translucent Xbox, and even some pleasant surprises like new Persona and Crazy Taxi games. Three days after the showcase, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma warned of a “reset” at Microsoft’s gaming division, which would require…
A few weeks into the war, one of the Persian Gulf’s top oil producers quietly began sneaking its crude out of the Strait of Hormuz.
A Chinese reviewer on Bilibili by the name of 杰某 ( Jie Mou ) got his hands on a special RTX 4080 graphics card that uses a mobile core instead of a desktop one.
Ukraine recapture of crimea.
Oil and gas shipping along a US-protected corridor in the Strait of Hormuz showed signs of recovering Sunday, a day after a batch of vessels performed unexplained U-turns and detours in the vital energy corridor.
Some $1.4 billion or so of that came from the crypto industry, spread across royalty payments from his memecoin company, token sales from World Liberty Financial and sales to an Abu Dhabi sheikh's firm, among other income streams.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has named quantum resistance, scalability and privacy as three of Ethereum's top priorities under a new "Lean Ethereum" strawmap, which lays out the network's technical direction for the remainder of the decade.
When Standard Chartered (STAN) said it would offer institutional clients direct access to minting and redeeming Circle Internet's (CRCL) USDC this week, it wasn't simply adding another digital asset service.
Japan's SBI Crypto shuts down 12th largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world, Russia gears up to launch digital ruble despite EU sanctions, and more: Asia Express.
The leading U.S. prediction markets business and the rest of the rapidly growing event-contract industry, which has been making a big public splash in marketing and advertising to disrupt sports betting in the same way that ride-share services did to taxi drivers, still needs definitive U.S. court rulings to cement its legal footing.
Perplexity AI and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski thinks the AI safety conversation has a problem: It's being used to concentrate power, not prevent harm.
A WIRED investigation revealed this week that Meta contractors posed as kids and teens to see how chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT responded to prompts about high-risk subjects, including suicide, sex and drugs.
It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
On the other hand, casual observers tend to miss that the French decacorn is following the Palantir playbook, with forward-deployed engineers that help governments and large corporations adopt AI and tailor it for their use cases.
Siri has never been the smartest virtual assistant, but what is especially disappointing is how it has refused to evolve despite Apple's aggressive push for Apple Intelligence.
Ukraine’s months-long campaign of drone strikes on oil infrastructure deep inside Russian territory has forced refineries to shut down. The head of Russia’s biggest oil company even called the damage to refineries “unprecedented,” according to a letter to President Vladimir Putin that was leaked to Russian newspaper…
Bitcoin keeps trading when Wall Street stops.
Zero Hour running natively on Apple Silicon Macs, iPhone, and iPad — campaign, skirmish, and Generals Challenge, with touch controls built for RTS (tap-select, drag-box, long-press deselect, two-finger scroll, pinch zoom).
The recent mission to the moon by Artemis II astronauts was memorable, inspiring, and scientifically important for so many reasons.
The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush and closed-loop cooling operations after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus.
About 14 years ago, Chrissi Kelly lost her sense of smell. She had traveled to the Czech Republic to visit family and caught some virus.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ‘s husband was involved in a hit and run on Friday in California’s wine country that left one car with “major damage,” according to local authorities, who said that the 86-year-old could face misdemeanor charges for the collision.
Memory prices will keep climbing through the third quarter of 2026, but the blistering increases of the past few quarters are set to cool as consumer buyers reach the ceiling of what they can afford, according to a detailed TrendForce report.
Some features are more clinically useful than others.
The incident is also being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Believe it or not, U.S. debt was once a source of national strength, before it became a sword of Damocles hanging over the federal government and the bond market.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said some prediction-market contracts may be covered by the European Union’s binary options ban, warning firms that yes-or-no event contracts cannot be marketed, distributed or sold to retail clients when they qualify as financial instruments.
It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including a former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and nine people identified by the White House as having helped people bypass emissions control systems on vehicles.
Pope Leo XIV, who has sparred with the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown, spent the Fourth of July on Saturday in the epicenter of Europe’s migration debate to honor the tens of thousands of people who have died trying to reach Europe to find freedom and prosperity.
The charming Ikko MindOne Pro isn’t all it’s shaped up to be.
China invasion of Taiwan.
Central banks added a net 41 tonnes of gold to official reserves in May, World Gold Council data published July 2 shows, extending a buying wave that has averaged 1,000 tonnes a year over the past four years.
Active cooling on Qi chargers is a good idea whose time has come. Phones sold by Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo have supported wireless charging speeds of 50W and above for years.
The New York Times reports that the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will traverse five cities across Iran and Iraq, marking a significant event amid ongoing geopolitical tensions. This procession, following Khamenei’s assassination during the 2026 Iran war, will include stops in Tehran, Qom, Karbala,…
Tokenization advocates often point to faster settlement, around-the-clock trading and using the tokens in decentralized finance (DeFi) as the biggest advantages of bringing traditional assets onto blockchain rails.
A $3,000 server was enough for a blockchain security researcher to simulate an attack path they say could have put as much as $70 billion in crypto infrastructure at risk.
Open ChangeNOW and a crypto swap looks like the simplest thing in the world: pick two tokens, send one, receive the other—a process the non-custodial exchange says usually completes within minutes, across more than 110 blockchains including ETH, BSC and SOL.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted about $527 million in net outflows over the four trading days ending Thursday, July 2, their eighth consecutive negative week, per The Block's analysis of SoSoValue data.
Nearly 1 million wallets that bought President Donald Trump's official memecoin have lost money since its January 2025 launch, with combined losses of $3.81 billion through the end of June, according to data from analytics firm Nansen reported by The New York Times on Saturday.
The standout equity winners this year have been memory and semiconductor stocks, which are crucial to the AI industry and have sidelined much of the crypto industry as investors sought to get a look-in on the hottest new trend.
Have been using Fable 5 all day continuing what I was doing with Opus. The findings are true.
The following are topics that have overlap with cybersecurity, but that are out of the scope of Anthropic’s cybersecurity classifiers.
That’s because Anthropic didn’t perform Anthropic’s standard character training on the model’s thought process. Another issue is what’s known as “faithfulness”—Anthropic don’t know for certain that what’s in the thought process truly represents what’s going on in the model’s mind (for instance, English-language words, such as those…
Japan—famously slow to adopt digital technologies common across the developed world—has become a surprisingly fast adopter of AI, as it confronts both a shrinking population and aging digital infrastructure built on legacy code.
Welcome to Edition 9.01 of the Rocket Report! Back in January, I wrote about the 20 launches and landings we were most excited about in 2026.
Green shoots across crypto markets today, with Cardano's native token leading among the majors.
In a series of posts on the Zcash forum on Thursday, developers said the privacy-focused cryptocurrency's Ironwood upgrade is moving closer to activation—first on a testnet—bringing the network a step nearer to allowing users to verify the integrity of its circulating supply following last month's disclosure of a critical counterfeiting vulnerability.
The demand for inference is skyrocketing and outpacing supply. Thus, NVIDIA GPU prices are climbing fast, and tokens are getting expensive.
It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body.
On a Sunday evening in the middle of Tompkins Square Park in New York City ’s East Village, hundreds of people gather in front of a giant papier-m’ché face of a woman wearing a crown.
YouTube may have started as a site to share home videos, but now it’s one of the most powerful platforms in the world: From entertainment to advertising, it’s spawned billion-dollar careers and birthed a global creator economy, turning individuals like MrBeast into household names.
Owning a US electric vehicle dealership has been a wild ride in the 2020s.
America's 250 years have been divided into 47 presidencies, served by 45 men.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) added AT&T’s network footprint to the hyperscaler’s managed AWS Interconnect service.
The reactor designs in the pilot program have benefited not from cutting red tape. Valar Atomics reached criticality late last year onsite at Los Alamos National Laboratory using a core with the startup’s fuel and key structural components provided by the lab. (The company reached criticality again with a second…
The European regulator said companies cannot circumvent EU financial rules by marketing binary-style products as event contracts rather than derivatives.
It’s gold, tacky, and had a tiny scratch straight out of the box.
However, like all good device makers, Google tweaks its products based on where they are sold to conform to local regulations and customer preferences. Unlike Samsung phones which often vary between featuring Snapdragon or Exynos chips depending on where they are sold, the differences between US and international…
Policy decisions on money, market infrastructure, and legal frameworks will determine whether tokenization strengthens or fragments the financial system as assets migrate onto shared digital ledgers, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Director Tobias Adrian said on Thursday.
Following this week's disclosure that President Donald Trump earned more than $1.2 billion from his crypto endeavors last year, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is once more calling for a ban on the issuance and promotion of digital assets for politicians and their spouses.
The crypto market is ending the week in a healthier position than where it started, with bitcoin BTC $ 62,612.69 trading at $61,600 after having risen by 6.5% from Tuesday's almost two-year low of $57,750.
Tokenization, the process of moving financial assets into a blockchain environment, could make markets faster and cheaper.
Large bitcoin holders bought more than 270,000 bitcoin BTC $ 62,612.69 ($16.7 billion) over the past two weeks, stepping in as U.S. institutions pulled money out at a record pace.
Bitcoin held above $61,000 and ether above $1,700 on Friday, extending a rebound that took hold after a softer-than-expected U.S. jobs report cooled expectations for further Federal Reserve tightening and revived appetite for risk assets.
OpenAI has been more supportive than Anthropic when it comes to its deals with the U.S. government, signing partnerships where Anthropic refused. Equity has become the administration's preferred tool for managing tech relationships.
“For an LLM, everything arrives through the same channel as one long token soup,” the team wrote. The paper also pointed to what the researcher called “role confusion,” with models relying on writing style rather than role tags to determine whether commands are trustworthy.
As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is accelerating and shifting toward continuously operating AI factories that generate tokens at scale.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in active talks with the Trump administration about the US potentially acquiring a 5 percent stake in the leading AI firm.
In turn, SpaceX and Elon Musk would own one of the most popular AI developer tools on the market. What was less clear was whether Cursor could remain an open platform after the deal, or if rival AI labs would continue letting it offer their models.
A new IAI report warns that European semiconductor ambitions are being squeezed from both sides of the Pacific.
DeFi lending protocol Edel disclosed a $403,000 exploit that hit the layer where tokenized stocks are trying to become DeFi collateral.
While investors and businesses spent the early days of April 2025 fretting over the future of global trade and the economy, President Donald Trump was busy buying into the stock market sell-off he created.
Blue Origin has not set a target date for the 9×4 rocket’s debut, but some sources have indicated the company is targeting late 2027 or early 2028. How realistic is this, especially after the destruction of Launch Complex 36A?
Shares of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plunged in early Thursday trading, dragging down South Korea's benchmark Kospi after the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slumped overnight.
A middling ticket to the World Cup final. That’s how much the highest-end, fully loaded version of Apple’s laptop now costs—$3,000 more than it did last week.
Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs with stealthy, custom-developed credential-stealing code.
If you've never opened up your Google account page on the web or on your phone, there are a host of options to browse through there. Here Wired is going to focus on seven of the lesser-known settings: the ones that don't necessarily get a lot of attention but which are still an important part of how your account and your…
Mitsubishi has acquired ground station as a service (GSaaS) provider Infostellar.
Top Kalshi trader Caleb Davies usually speaks to the press about how prediction markets help him rake in money. The Minneapolis-based IT worker estimates he’s made $1.2 million overall across different prediction platforms, with $414,000 in winnings from Kalshi’s culture markets alone.
Major Russian banks and retailers are ready to allow citizens to use the national's digital ruble by the September 1 deadline, Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said this week, according to a report from state-owned media.
Small Business Bank, Lenexa, Kansas PCA Directive dated June 29, 2026. The Federal Reserve Board also announced the termination of the following enforcement actions listed below:
Qolab, a quantum computing startup founded by former Google execs, has announced the closing of its Series B Preferred Stock financing round, totaling $54.2 million.
U.S. jobs growth disappointed last month, with the data likely to set back market expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike as soon as this summer or early Fall.
Google has announced plans for four "connectivity hubs" in Africa during the company's Cloud Summit in Africa.
“I think that business is totally disruptible,” Redfearn told Decrypt. As of June, the tokenization firm had more than $4 billion in assets under management.
Strategy is the largest bitcoin holder with about 4% of the total BTC supply, and remains a major purchaser, having acquired about $13.7 billion worth this year, accounting for around 70% of JPMorgan's estimated overall digital asset flow.
The company said Thursday the tokenized securities are issued on Ethereum through Oasis Pro TA, an SEC-registered transfer agent Ondo acquired last year. Importantly, the product is not yet available to U.S. investors.
Digital broker eToro (ETOR) is doubling down on decentralized finance (DeFi) as online brokerages race to bring blockchain-based trading to mainstream investors.
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134 crypto wallet addresses to its ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) sanctions entry on Wednesday, including 131 Tron addresses and 3 Monero addresses.
Venice says it does not store users' prompts on its own systems and encrypts user requests before routing them through an external proxy. Venice says it gives users access to over 200 AI models, including open-source models it hosts itself and closed-source models from OpenAI and Anthropic (accessed anonymously via…
Publicly traded brokerage and financial app Robinhood launched the public mainnet Wednesday for its Ethereum layer-2 network, Robinhood Chain.
Venice AI has raised $65 million in its first outside funding round at a $1 billion valuation, founder Erik Voorhees announced Wednesday.
The United Nations published an independent scientific assessment of artificial intelligence on Wednesday, and the conclusion is blunt: nobody can currently guarantee the technology won't cause catastrophic harm.
Try the new Google Finance. The new Google Finance is coming out of beta, with several new capabilities to help you better track and understand financial investments.
Spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds in the U.S. saw $4.5 billion in net outflows in June, marking their largest monthly withdrawal since the products launched in January 2024.
T-Mobile is asking a New York court to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to continue supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said this week that Blue Origin has been putting significant resources into the cleanup of its launch pad since the explosion of its New Glenn rocket there in late May.
Egypt’s National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has awarded a license to the new digital arm of construction group Hassan Allam to operate data centers and provide cloud computing services.
Wayve, a U.K.-based self-driving tech startup, is allowing its employees to sell a portion of their vested equity.
In London, data centres for Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals went down, leading to the cancellation of operations. A report detailing what happened, external, published the following year, set out the sequence of events, including this moment at 13.30 on 19 July: "Attempts to cool the St Thomas' datacentre begin by…
US homeowners have embraced home batteries in record-breaking numbers in early 2026, spurred on by state incentives while seeking to offset rising residential electricity costs.
Selling server infrastructure would put Meta in competition with Amazon and Google.
Ashton Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures — the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago — to start a separate VC fund, the Wall Street Journal reported. Beller also spent nearly three years as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
Elizabeth Warren alleged that the president and his family were benefiting from Trump holding a seat in the Oval Office. While he was responding to people calling out the president’s alleged market manipulation, Eric’s post corroborated two things today: his father’s comments when asked about it this morning (“I don’t…
The president’s mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 reveals he received $77,808 in pension funds last year, or about $6,484 monthly, from SAG. He also received an $8,724 annual pension from the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which he likewise became a member of in 1989.
Walking into a working plant is quicker and cheaper than building one, because the buildings, power, and trained workers are already there. The Sunderland talks would see Nissan keep the plant and build Chery’s cars under contract on a freed-up line.
Parameters are the total number of dials a model can handle during training. The stealth period paid off.
Several former EF employees and other longtime Ethereum supporters have also recently formed EthLabs, which will take over significant Ethereum protocol research and development duties. In a note to The Block, Standard Chartered Bank's Global Head of Digital Assets Research Geoffrey Kendrick said the launch of EthLabs…
"If it does not, it will only turbocharge Donald Trump’s brazen crypto corruption," Warren said in a statement. On the Republican side, Sen.
Taiwan has taken a major step forward in overseeing its digital asset sector by enacting comprehensive new regulations for cryptocurrency operations.
Bitcoin bounced off its lowest level in nearly two years Wednesday, as soft U.S. economic data and noncommittal comments from the Federal Reserve chair gave respite to a battered market.
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